Mike Mendenhall, associate editor at the Jacksonville Daily Record in Florida, has left. He wrote on X/Twitter:
“Reporting for this newspaper has been one of the best professional experiences of my career. It’s allowed me to grow as a journalist …”
Mendenhall joined the newspaper in April 2019 as a staff writer. Previously, he served three Iowa papers: as editor-in-chief of Shaw Media’s Newton Daily News, and as news editor for Shaw’s Jasper County Tribune and Prairie City News.
He interned at Gannett.
Mendenhall has a B.A. in journalism and mass communications from the University of Iowa, where he reported for the student newspaper The Daily Iowan.